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Example sentences for: gently

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DMEM (2 ml) with 2% FBS was subsequently added to the wells and the gels were gently detached from the walls to float the collagen disks.
Out of town, Lake Balaton is a good place for water babies, particularly the southern edge where the sandy shore slopes gently into warm water.
This moment is meant to be soul-churning for both the character and the audience, but Harford is played by Tom Cruise, who is not, to put it gently, a thoughtful actor.
Lee wins praise for his "gently ironic touch" in adapting a novel by Rick Moody, and for being "less interested in assigning blame for all the misery than in simply documenting it" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). (The movie is plugged here.
Of how, when tea was done, and everyone had stood,He reached for my head, put his hands over it,And gently pulled me to his chest, which smelledOf dung smoke and cinnamon and mutton grease.I could hear his wheezy breathing now, like the prophet's Last whispered word repeated by the faithful.Then he prayed for what no one had time to translate--His son interrupted the old man to tell him a groupOf snake charmers sought his blessing, and a blind thief.The saint pushed me away, took one long look,Then straightened my collar and nodded me toward the door.